well, the word is landslide, the word is landslide for ronald reagan tonight. if they're not breaking out the champagne at the reagan headquarters now, it's only because, well, they can't find an opener. >> jimmy carter, though beaten at the polls, did not act like a beaten man. he said he didn't feel people had turned against him personally but had voted their frustrations over america's lost dominance in world affairs. mr. carter showed a flash of anger only once when he said his wife had seen one of the moral majority preachers this morning who said americans had acted to put a true christian in the oval office. >> we knew that reagan had won the election. the iranians told us that. a certain gloating feeling that they were responsible for jimmy carter's defeat. >> mr. carter is back in his office burning the midnight oil. and perhaps that's characteristic of the jimmy carter presidency. he's doing it here on his last night in washington.